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Title Author Year
Blue-Butterfly Day Robert Frost 1923
What I Did Wrong Marie Howe 2017
Letter to the Northern Lights Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2016
Why I Don’t Mention Flowers When Conversations with My Brother Reach Uncomfortable Silences Natalie Diaz 2016
Imaginary Conversation Linda Pastan 2016
Among the Multitude Walt Whitman 1891
Riverbank Blues Sterling A. Brown 1980
Whose Mouth Do I Speak With Suzanne Rancourt 2004
Ode to People Who Hate Me Carmen Giménez 2023
The Jester Langston Hughes 1926
Death of an Old Seaman Langston Hughes 1926
To Winter Claude McKay 1922
From “Citizen,” VI [On the train the woman standing] Claudia Rankine 2014
Hagar in the Wilderness Tyehimba Jess 2013
Taking Down the Tree Jane Kenyon 2005
Fire Dreams Carl Sandburg 1918
Good Hair Sherman Alexie 2011
Dream-Land Edgar Allan Poe 1844
The Apparition John Donne 1633
Winter Twilight Anne Porter 2006

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